About us
Lifestyle Africa is the product of a research grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (R01HL126099) awarded to Children’s Mercy Kansas City and in collaboration with the University of the Western Cape, the University of Michigan, and the University of Kansas. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Our Team Members
Delwyn Catley, Ph.D. Principal Investigator Children’s Mercy Kansas City
Lungiswa Tsolekile, Ph.D. Co-investigator University of the Western Cape
Thandi Puoane, Dr.PH. Co-investigator University of the Western Cape
Kathy Goggin, Ph.D. Co-investigator Children’s Mercy Kansas City
Ken Resnicow, Ph.D. Co-investigator University of Michigan
Kandace Fleming, Ph.D. Statistician University of Kansas
Project Publications
Catley, D., Puoane, T., Tsolekile, L., Resnicow, K., Fleming, K., Hurley, E.A., Smyth, J.M., Vitolins, M.Z., Lambert, E.V., Levitt, N. and Goggin, K., (2019). Adapting the Diabetes Prevention Program for low and middle-income countries: protocol for a cluster randomised trial to evaluate ‘Lifestyle Africa’. BMJ Open, 9(11). http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031400
Catley, D., Puoane, T., Goggin, K., Tsolekile, L. P., Resnicow, K., Fleming, K., Smyth, J.M., Hurley, E. A., Schlachter, S., Vitolins, M.Z., Lambert, E. V., Hassen, M., Muhali, K., Schoor, R. (2020). Adapting the Diabetes Prevention Program for low-and middle-income countries: preliminary implementation findings from lifestyle Africa. Translational behavioral medicine, 10, 46-54. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibz187
Catley, D., Puoane, T., Tsolekile, L., Resnicow, K., Fleming, K.K., Hurley, E.A., Smyth, J.M., Materia, F.T., Lambert, E.V., Vitolins, M.Z., Levitt, N.S., Goggin, K. (2022). Evaluation of an adapted version of the Diabetes Prevention Program for low- and middle-income countries: A cluster randomized trial to evaluate “Lifestyle Africa” in South Africa. PLoS Medicine 19(4):e1003964. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003964. PMID: 35427357; PMCID: PMC9053793
